European Quotes

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.

I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.